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Valiance at Home: A Tribute to Family Caregivers

The woman wakes, jolted by a cough from down the hall. The sound is loud and insistent, tearing through darkness, a siren made just for her. Then the hall goes silent, bringing peace that’s sure to be fleeting. The woman tries to savor the moment and relax. Cradled by a lounge chair, she makes a feeble attempt at stretching, her eyes widening more while she does.
July 31, 2025 Read More »
Health Tip Wednesday Recap #16 - September 2024

Health Tip Wednesday Recap #16 - September 2024

September, for many of us, presents a tinge of the fall season, signs of the togetherness and holidays moving, somewhat rapidly, toward us. The changing leaves can sometimes parallel changing habits or attitudes ourselves, and what areas we want to improve in. The shades red, orange and yellow are really a reflection of the variance in us and continued growth as individuals. The September 2024 Health Tip Wednesday attempts to capture all of that and more.
October 16, 2024 Read More »
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Forward, Still: Ruminating on Grief and Loss

It’s the socks. They’re unmissable even in this setting, a faux pas that should be called out here and now. Bright and swimming with a medley of colors that takes squinting to identify, echoing the tie-dye t-shirts so popular decades ago. Except this exact clothing has no apparent order to its look-at-me visage; it’s all entropy and devoid of style, dominated by something approaching pink and turquoise. And oh my, is that actually burnt orange? With each passing second, my shock mounts with intensity, while the wearer of said socks, a tall and lanky man, quietly coughs and moves his fist to his mouth, before lowering his hand and falling silent again, gazing forward like everyone else in the immediate radius...
July 31, 2025 Read More »
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Health Tip Wednesday Recap #12 - May 2024

Departing from routine and what you already know to become more acquainted with the unfamiliar. That is the primary theme found in this month's Health Tip Wednesday posts for May 2024. Through creativity and communication, we can potentially move through our days with a little more happiness and understanding. There is a lot that can come from exploration, it is simply a matter of starting the search, as you consider the following...
June 12, 2024 Read More »
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Yoga 5 by 5: Potential Benefits and Basic Poses

We're all stories. These personal sagas assembled over time. There’s the childhood that seems endless. Followed by an adulthood that feels ridiculously rushed, yet glorious just the same. But throughout everything, sleek and topsy-turvy scenes alike, there are two constants: the mind and the body. Enter yoga, a resource that can bare great value when used to align both constants, strike balance, and regain control we either lack or misplaced.
April 29, 2024 Read More »
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Plant Cultivation 5 by 5: Potential Benefits and Plants That Can Support Wellness

Once again, the scent of spring is in the air! Or is that simply pollen floating its way around, spurring us toward a dramatic sneeze? In either case, though it’s already past the halfway mark, April is still National Garden Month, acting as a springboard to revive or create a unique arrangement of plants and flowers, one that might withstand the medley of weather the coming months bring. Check out the first entry in the '5 by 5' blog series!
April 23, 2024 Read More »